Page 2849 - Week 08 - Thursday, 11 August 2016
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In that vein, I would also like to thank the DLOs who came to work in the minister’s office. Being a DLO must be a strange role. You are sort of embedded in a minister’s office, doing all the things that go on but at the same time working for the department. I would particularly like to acknowledge Josh, Sarah, Erin, Megan, Chris, Karen, Adele Megan again, Guenivere, Ian, Kate and Annaliese.
To the Assembly staff, I have not seen you as much this term as when I was Speaker, but I always appreciate you there and appreciate your wonderful professionalism in supporting this place.
I finish by particularly thanking my team. I know Mr Hanson thinks there were too many of them, but when you have to fulfil a ministerial role, be a deciding vote on every issue that comes to this place and have an opinion on everything the media wants to ring you up about, and the other two parties in this place split that workload across up to eight people, it is a unique challenge and one that I could not have survived without my extraordinary team. They have worked hard. They work with passion. They have worked with creativity. It has been a lot of fun as well working with them all. I owe an enormous debt of thanks to the current team of Indra, Matt, Jarrah, Rob, Ali, Laura, Helen, Logan and Leigh, and those who have been here for parts of the term: Tom, who made a special guest appearance today just for the occasion, Larry, Maiy, Sophie and Kirsten.
I want to thank the party for giving me the chance to be here and for being a strong support. Being the sole Greens member of the place, I have used the party as a real sounding board along the way. They have been there, and they have been forthright and supportive. I have appreciated that a lot.
I want to thank the electorate of Molonglo. It now becomes something else. I lose a whole section in my electorate and am now standing for Kurrajong. It has been a great pleasure to be a member for Molonglo.
I should mention Louise especially, because she actually volunteered to join this bandwagon once I was already on it. She knew what she was in for and she still came on board. I feel very lucky for that.
I wish all of my colleagues well: Simon as he heads off to a new career path, a new whatever life holds next, and the rest of you as you go through the election process. We will see how we all go.
MS FITZHARRIS (Molonglo—Minister for Higher Education, Training and Research, Minister for Transport Canberra and City Services and Assistant Minister for Health) (9.31): I am also pleased to rise this evening. To start, I would also like to thank the people of the electorate of Molonglo. I have not gotten to know many of them, but I have gotten to know some of them extremely well, particularly those people who live in Gungahlin. When I was elected early last year, I decided to place a particular focus on the people of Gungahlin, who had felt that they perhaps had not had a voice in here specifically for the needs of that community as it grows so quickly.
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